Garfy's Get-a-Grip: the perfect painting handle for every need
Garfy’s Get-a-Grips are a range of painting handles which help you to hold the model whilst you paint it. There are four Grips for various needs: Basic, Long, Long Pro, and Ultra.
Why do I need a painting handle?
Well you don’t. For decades I painted by holding the miniature and that’s cool and it works, but in recent years as I spent more time applying highlights I grew frustrated with rubbing or smudging the paint work off the miniature and having to keep retouching it. Using a Get-a-Grip (especially with the finger rest) means I don’t ever have to touch the miniature.
What does Garfy’s Get a Grip do?
The Get a Grip utilises a torsion spring and levers to allow you to open the grip single handedly. The Grip body then holds 50mm Citadel round bases. For 40mm, 32mm and 20mm round bases you can use the supplied orange shims. Because you use form fitted shims the grip it has on your miniature is unrivalled. You can shake it like crazy and the model won’t pop out. Shims for different sized bases are available to order including shims to hold square Citadel bases and shims to hold smooth round bases typically found on Warmachine, Hordes and other non-GW miniatures.
A Grip for every need
- Garfy’s Get a Grip Pro is the do it all Painting Handle. It holds 50mm, 40mm, 32mm, 20mm bases, it includes a wine cork (unused) at it’s core allowing you to pin models without a base or models with odd sized unique bases or even small components or sub assemblies into the cork. It’s other feature is a removable, rotatable finger rest. Which helps you keep your fingers off the miniature and makes painting the miniature upside down really easy.
- Garfy’s Get a Grip Pro Long has all the same features of the Pro but as the name suggests is longer.
- Garfy’s Get a Grip Ultra has all the features of the Pro Long, but comes with large 50mm piece of cork, additional shims for oval bases, and has a larger finger rest.
- Garfy’s Get a Grip Basic removes the cork and finger rest and is a batch painters dream. If you have five Tyranid Warriors mounted on 50mm bases and you want to batch paint them then the Get a Grip Basic is a great option. It’s not uncommon for me to receive an order of 10 of these from one customer.
See the Grips in action
Want to see a demo of the Grips before making a decision? Watch the video here:
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